Highland League: Buckie Thistle beat Rothes to return to top spot, Forres Mechanics crash at Wick Academy, Deveronvale denied by late leveller and Keith beaten by Nairn County
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Buckie Thistle returned to the top of the Highland League after a hard-fought 3-1 win at Rothes on Wednesday.
Centre half Jack Murray was Jags hero with a double including a penalty.
Murray put Buckie ahead inside 15 minutes before Liam McDade free kick was turned into his own net by a Jags defender to level ten minutes later.
It remained 1-1 going into the last 20 minutes before Buckie were awarded a penalty for handball and Murray converted his second.
Scott Adams added his fifth goal of the season to seal the three points.
Brechin City remain unbeaten after coming from behind to beat second bottom Inverurie Locos 2-1.
Locos led at the break through a Mark Souter goal, but Brechin top scorer Grady McGrath came off the bench at the interval and quickly scored his 15th and 16th goals of the season - the first from the spot - to win it for the Tayside men.
Formartine United moved into second place with a 2-1 success at Fraserburgh.
Julian Wade and Scott Lisle had United 2-0 up inside half an hour.
Broch pulled one back through Connor Wood late on but then had Paul Young sent off.
Forres Mechanics were stunned by the quickest hat-trick of the Highland League season up at Wick.
Scorries' front man Gordon MacNab netted a five-minute treble to put the home side 3-0 up after 20 minutes.
Calum Frame and Tom Brady pulled two back for Mechanics, but their 3-2 defeat means the Moray side haven't won in the league since mid-August.
Deveronvale were stunned by a Banks O' Dee comeback from 3-1 down to salvage a point in Banff.
Chris Antoniazzi put the Aberdeen side ahead with an early penalty but Harry Noble and Matty Petermann gave Vale a half time lead.
Rogan Read made it 3-1 to the home side on 57 minutes, Hamish Macleod pulled one back and Ewen Robertson levelled in the last minute for Dee in a thrilling 3-3 draw.
Keith also surrendered a lead in their 3-2 defeat at Nairn County.
Ciaran Young put Nairn ahead early on before Mikey Taylor and Gavin Elphinstone turned the game around for the Maroons in a five-minute purple patch midway through the first half.
Veteran Ross Tokely squared it before half time and Young netted a 63rd minute penalty which proved to be Nairn's winner, with Keith's Liam Cheyne later sent off.
Brora Rangers beat Clach for the third time this season but failed to net the seven goals they managed in each of the two previous meetings.
Jordan MacRae's 10th goal of the season on half time and a Ben Cormack own goal were enough to give the Cattachs a 2-0 success.
